AP Examines Bloggers Fired for Blogging
Here I go blogging about blogging again. Guess I just can’t stop.
The Associated Press talks about bloggers who have been fired because of things they’ve written about their employers or place of employment. It mentions several firings, like that of a Delta flight attendant, a Micrsoft contractor, and a Google worker, and encourages employers to develop blogging policies and bloggers to discuss their blogs with their managers.
"Annalee Newitz, a policy analyst at the civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation, said employees often ‘don’t realize the First Amendment doesn’t protect their job.’
The First Amendment only restricts government control of speech. So private employers are free to fire at will in most states, as long as it’s not discriminatory or in retaliation for whistle-blowing or union organizing, labor experts say."
